Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion by Heinrich Meier

Author:Heinrich Meier [Meier, Heinrich]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780226275994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016-12-14T16:00:00+00:00

50. IV, 4–6 (176–80). Strauss draws in these three paragraphs upon Discourses I, Proemio; II, 2 and III, 1 consecutively, of which he says that they are “the three passages explicitly dealing with the essence of Christianity” (176). The essence of Christianity is a formulation that Strauss introduces into the discussion.

51. “. . . Machiavelli shows that the neglect of law enforcement, of human punishment, leads to the consequence that either the evils will be eventually corrected with non-legal violence or else that society will perish . . . Non-resistance to evil would secure forever the undisturbed rule of evil men. Resistance to evil is natural to man as well as to any other living being. The counsel against resisting evil can therefore lead only to evasion of that counsel” IV, 6 (180).

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